Daily Archives: May 6, 2016

Human Rights Watch (HR) has criticized the US for selling cluster munitions to Saudi Arabia, urging Riyadh to stop using such banned arms that leave behind unexploded sub-munitions and endanger civilians. On Friday, Steve Goose, arms director at HRW and chair of the Cluster Munition Coalition, an international coalition of groups working to ...

KABUL (AFP) – Prince was famous worldwide for his music and extravagant outfits, but he was also a secret philanthropist in war-torn Afghanistan, quietly donating thousands to Scout masters caring for young orphans, a charity told AFP Thursday. The pop icon, who died suddenly last month at the age of ...

NEW DELHI: Veteran left-hander Yuvraj Singh feels India Test captain Virat Kohli is the best batsman of this generation but deemed it unfair to compare him with Sachin Tendulkar as he feels that it will take a lot more hard work from the Delhi lad to match the maestro’s legacy. ...

British economic growth slowed in April and is “near stalling”, partly due to consumer uncertainty over the EU referendum about UK membership, according to a new survey. London-based Markit, a global financial information and services company, said its Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) surveys for last month pointed to growth of ...

US Speaker of the House Paul Ryan says he is “just not ready” to support Donald Trump as the Republican Party’s presumptive presidential nominee. Ryan made the comments in an interview with CNN on Thursday, hours after US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he is committed to supporting Trump’s ...

US Senator Chris Murphy has attacked Donald Trump, the Republican Party’s presumptive presidential nominee, saying Trump would leak classified intelligence if he thought he could gain political advantage. “He wouldn’t think twice of taking classified information and putting it out in the public realm if he thought it served his ...

The United States has vented anger over the Syrian leader’s emphasis on victory against militants in the city of Aleppo and countrywide, urging Russia to curb Damascus. On Thursday, US State Department spokesman Mark Toner demonstrated Washington’s ire over Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s recent statement, saying, “Again, this is someone ...

An American writer and political analyst says if Hillary Clinton gets elected president of the United States, she will do the Empire’s bidding and push towards war with Russia or China. Patrick Daniel Welch told Press TV on Thursday that the United States will have to launch a nuclear war ...

North Korea has kicked off the first congress of its ruling party in 36 years, in a move believed to be aimed at getting approval for leader Kim Jong-un’s ideology of developing the economy and nuclear weapons. The 7th congress of the Workers’ Party kicked off in Pyongyang on Friday, ...

A Tunisian bomber with the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group has rammed his explosive-laden vehicle into a checkpoint in western Libya, killing five people. The group claimed responsibility for the Thursday bombing near the town of Abu-Qrain, 80 kilometers (50 miles) from the city of Misrata, identifying the attacker as Khabab ...